The Fountain Aspect Ratio ?

[voiz]

Ok, I think i understand now.

I set my DVD player to 16:9, which was never done. It was 4:3 letterbox, so this is why i had the black bars up and down. I just stretched the image.

So basically, there shouldnt be any black bars in a 1.85:1 ratio.

That makes alot of sense now.

[Blu Tiger]

Glad you figured it out. Yeah, It's like Dec said in his post: Anything that's between 1.66-1.85 wide should be full screen (no bars) on a 16:9 set.

[voiz]

But i still have to stretch the image to get a full screen, otherwise i have black bars on left and right..

(On regular DVD that is..)

But to know that a blu ray movie on my ps3 should not have black bars is kind of comforting

I guess its because its already set as 16x9 or something, which was not the case with my DVD player.

[Deciazulado]

Apart that an HDTV set might be over-scanning or not (it only takes 3.9% overscan to make a 1038 x 1920 pixel 1.85 movie fill your 16:9 screen) what also could be happening is that they transfered the movie opening the matte slightly (3.9% vertically ) to fill the screen (as the majority of 1.85 movies are shot on 1.37 cameras) similar to what happens when you watch them on an European ratio 1.66 screen (there you'd see about 10+% extra vertically)

*In the name of science rips up shrinkwrap

Yup the Fountain is in 1.78 on the disc.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Originally Posted by voiz

Ok, I think i understand now.

I set my DVD player to 16:9, which was never done. It was 4:3 letterbox, so this is why i had the black bars up and down. I just stretched the image.

So basically, there shouldnt be any black bars in a 1.85:1 ratio.

That makes alot of sense now.

if ur set is calibrated properly then u should see small black bars with 1:85 movies, u shouldnt see black bars with 1:78 movies

i see black bars on my tv